Strong G2486ἰχθύς
fish
- Transliteration
- ichthus
- Pronunciation
- ikh-thoos'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Of uncertain affinity; a fish: - fish.
Detailed definition
ἰχθύς, -ύoς, ὁ
[in LXX for דָּג, דָּגָה;]
a fish: Mat.7:10, Mrk.6:38, al.
(AS)
[in LXX for דָּג, דָּגָה;]
a fish: Mat.7:10, Mrk.6:38, al.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2486 appears in 18 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- fish18
- the2
First verses
- Matthew 7:10Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
- Matthew 14:17And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
- Matthew 14:19And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Matthew 15:36And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Matthew 17:27Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
- Mark 6:38He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
- Mark 6:41And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
- Mark 6:43And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
- Luke 5:6And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
- Luke 5:9For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
- Luke 9:13But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
- Luke 9:16Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
- Luke 11:11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
- Luke 24:42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
- John 21:6And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
- John 21:8And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
- John 21:11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
- 1 Corinthians 15:39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἰχθῦς
(so Hdn.Gr.2.936, -ῦς and -ύς frequently in codices), ύος, ὁ, accusative ἰχθύν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 306, cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.416, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.383)], in late Poets also ἰχθύα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.227 (from Bianor), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.45: _vocative_ ἰχθύ Erinna Lyrica 1, 5th c.BC: Crates Comicus 14: _plural_ ἰχθύες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 109e, etc., ἰχθῦς 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 261.9, _accusative_ ἰχθύας)], contraction ἰχθῦς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.53)], both forms being used in Comedy texts, -ῦς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1068, 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 29)], -ύας [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 68.12, 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 21; codices vary in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 564b19, “PA” 644a21, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.3, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.3.19, etc.;)] -ῦς [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“SIG” 997.1 (Smyrna, perhaps 1st c.BC))]; -ύας[Refs 4th c.BC+ (“BGU” 1123.9 (Aug.), etc.: dual ἰχθῦ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 194.15)]:—fish, ὠμηστής [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.82, compare 21.122, +others, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 277, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.93, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1297,etc.: proverbial, ἀφωνότερος τῶν ἰχθύων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 2.18)]: metaphorically, of a stupid fellow, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.975b.)]
II in plural, οἱ ἰχθύες the fish-market at Athens, παρὰ τοὺς ἰχθῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1068; ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσι [prev. author] “V.” 789, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 125.1.)]
III plural, the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Pisces”, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.3; ἰ. Διός 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 22. (ἱχθύς)] Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 2.3.2.))] [ῡ in disyllable cases, nominative -ῡς[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.127, 4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.20, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 52 (ἰχθῦς οὖσα should be read for ἰχθὺς ἐοῦσα in 4th c.BC: Matro Parodius “Convivium - Corpusculum poesis epicae ludibundae” 35)]), accusative -ῡν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 120, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 166.7, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 28)], but -ῠν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.49, and apparently 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] [same place]: ῠ in trisyllable cases and in all compounds] (Cf. Lithuanian žuvìs, Armenian jukn, 'fish'.)
(so Hdn.Gr.2.936, -ῦς and -ύς frequently in codices), ύος, ὁ, accusative ἰχθύν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 306, cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.416, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.383)], in late Poets also ἰχθύα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.227 (from Bianor), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.45: _vocative_ ἰχθύ Erinna Lyrica 1, 5th c.BC: Crates Comicus 14: _plural_ ἰχθύες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 109e, etc., ἰχθῦς 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 261.9, _accusative_ ἰχθύας)], contraction ἰχθῦς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.53)], both forms being used in Comedy texts, -ῦς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1068, 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 29)], -ύας [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 68.12, 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 21; codices vary in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 564b19, “PA” 644a21, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.3, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.3.19, etc.;)] -ῦς [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“SIG” 997.1 (Smyrna, perhaps 1st c.BC))]; -ύας[Refs 4th c.BC+ (“BGU” 1123.9 (Aug.), etc.: dual ἰχθῦ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 194.15)]:—fish, ὠμηστής [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.82, compare 21.122, +others, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 277, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.93, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1297,etc.: proverbial, ἀφωνότερος τῶν ἰχθύων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 2.18)]: metaphorically, of a stupid fellow, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.975b.)]
II in plural, οἱ ἰχθύες the fish-market at Athens, παρὰ τοὺς ἰχθῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1068; ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσι [prev. author] “V.” 789, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 125.1.)]
III plural, the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Pisces”, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.3; ἰ. Διός 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 22. (ἱχθύς)] Attic dialect accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus 2.3.2.))] [ῡ in disyllable cases, nominative -ῡς[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.127, 4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.20, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 52 (ἰχθῦς οὖσα should be read for ἰχθὺς ἐοῦσα in 4th c.BC: Matro Parodius “Convivium - Corpusculum poesis epicae ludibundae” 35)]), accusative -ῡν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 120, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 166.7, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 28)], but -ῠν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.49, and apparently 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] [same place]: ῠ in trisyllable cases and in all compounds] (Cf. Lithuanian žuvìs, Armenian jukn, 'fish'.)